37 weeks with pics

This is me at 37 weeks with a very messy bathroom (Thanks Caleb) and a new haircut:


Go ahead: hate me! I noticed when I was doing my hair that I looked dang good from the back.


Caleb is helping mama pack her hospital bag. He knows me well!

Baby Update

Doctor appointment today went well. According to them, I'll be 37 weeks tomorrow, which is full term. I told them I don't want to be induced at all unless medically necessary, and she said she would let me go until 41 weeks, and then she induces no matter what. There's no way I'll make it that far though. Things are progressing already, and she even went as far as to tell me to take it easy this weekend because she's not on call and wants to be able to deliver my baby when she gets back on call.. I told her I'm not interested in having a baby this weekend since Greg is gone hunting and can't really answer his phone to come rushing home! She can just stay in until at least Saturday night when Greg gets home.

Since I'm not officially at 37 weeks yet, she said I am "threatened preterm labor" until tomorrow when I turn 37 weeks. No big deal with that though. The ultrasound also showed my placenta is getting old, which means it's about to quit working and kick the baby out. As long as fluid levels stay ok I won't need to be induced but if i notice less movements then I will need to go to the hospital and get checked out.

Progress! Baby! Wheeee!

Surgery update

We are already home from the surgery and Caleb is sleeping away. He is totally out of it. He woke up very angry from the anesthesia and it took Greg manhandling him to calm him down, and even then it was hard. He cried so much! When they brought us back for the after-surgery doc consult we could hear him screaming down the hall. Less than 5 minutes later (it's usually about 20) they came to get us to try to help calm him down. I tried to but he kept wiggling and kicking me in the stomach so I gave him to Greg.

Anyway, the surgery was successful and the doc said he had a "pretty significant blockage" so that was reassuring that the surgery was necessary. Now he has a tiny tube in place for 6 weeks. Greg said he could see it up his nose but I haven't looked yet.

The coolest part about it all was Dr. Norman prayed with us before the surgery, and it was his idea. We were both blown away and completely reassured by that. It was so nice to know that our little guy's life was in another believer's hands. God hands us such blessings as that just to keep us going forward and to assure us that we are His precious children.

Thanks for thinking of us today! It went really well, and we hope the rest of tonight goes just as well.

Caleb's surgery

We take him tomorrow for his eye surgery at 1 pm. We have to be there at noon, and he can't have anything to eat after 7am and no drinks at all after 11. Poor guy, he's almost always attached to a sippy cup so it's going to be hard to distract him for two hours. It also means Greg and I can't have lunch until he goes back for surgery. That would just be mean to eat lunch in front of him. So our plan is to give him breakfast early, then give him a haircut and a bath, then get going to the mall or someplace to get him out of the house and distracted. Otherwise he'll be hanging on the fridge door by 9 am asking for juice, juice, juice..

So pray for Caleb's surgery to go well and for him to react well to the anesthesia. And pray for me to have calm nerves about my baby being asleep without me! The hardest part is relinquishing control over my own child's wellbeing.

Caleb's black eye -- PRE surgery...

Caleb's souvenier from his head-first tumble off the couch.. this was the same day he climbed/fell/jumped/we'renotsure out of his crib. Something in his brain must have clicked over the weekend, telling him "must climb everything, must do it recklessly." crazy crazy!







There has been a lot progress in his big boy bed since then. He has slept two nights, pretty much through the night. Once he fell out of the bed and got stuck between the fooot of the bed and the dresser and freaked out a bit (who wouldn't?) and he got up at 6:30 this morning so Greg had to go tell him to go back to sleep. He did until about 7:10 too. It has helped that this time we put the baby gate up in the doorway so he can't get out of his room. At least we know we won't find him in the living room watching TV at 5:30 am (that actually happened the first time we tried the BBBed.)

Why me? Why now????? grrrr

Caleb decided to climb out of his crib this morning for the first time. We heard a thud, then a frantic cry. Greg ran in to find Caleb standing in the middle of the room... not where we left him!! So I guess the crib is history. I am sad! I'm not ready for this. He is taking a nap in his toddler bed right now, and I think it is going to be successful. Not that I'm happy about it. grumble grumble

Went to the doctor this morning for a routine checkup. Lost a pound again, somehow. Even after I ate a bunch of cookies and drank a lot of chocolate milk last night.. Whatever. I also found out that my doctor considers 37 weeks to be full term. That would be December 28th! Yikes. I refuse to have a baby before January. I have never heard that 37 weeks for a single baby was full term. I do not want to be induced before it's necessary, if at all. I especially want to still be pregnant for Caleb's post-op appointment on December 31. It would be easier to lug myself in the doctor's very inconveniently located downtown Fort Worth office instead of myself, and an infant carrier. Besides, why rush things in there? She will come out when she's ready, I'm sure of that. I don't want to grab her out of her comfy little home before she's ready. Anyway, that's my thing with that.

Eye Surgery

The opthamologist recommended the eye surgery. I am glad, but also sad that my baby has to have surgery! It will be an outpatient thing, but he will still have to undergo general anesthesia. They will put a stint in his tear duct that will stay there for 6-8 weeks. The plan is for the stint to stretch the tear duct out so that it won't close up again.

6-8 weeks for the follow up we will for sure have a newborn... busy times.

Caleb's eye yuck

Monday morning we are taking Caleb to the pediatric opthamologist again. He went last year around this time, when he was 10-11 months old for his blocked tear duct. They did a procedure in the office that poked it out and it cleared up for several months. Recently, (the last few months) it has gotten bad again and the last month it has pretty much been gooky every day. It *might* be related to when he has upper respiratory stuff (aka SNOT) but sometimes it's bad and he's dry. So we went ahead and made the appointment to have it looked at again. I hope they can fix it for good, I'm tired of my boy having a swollen red goopy eye all the time. People always ask me if he has pink eye. The last time we went to this doctor there were a lot of special needs kids in there and it made me feel so lucky that this is Caleb's only physical problem. I guess special needs kids tend to have more eye problems. I just feel so blessed to have a perfect little guy, and the only problem he's ever had in his life is a little eye gunk. I'll be thinking of that Monday in that waiting room.

The dreaded doctor's report...

It turned out well! I was scared that I would get in big trouble about my weight, but apparently Thanksgiving was good to me... the way it's bad to most people. I gained 9 pounds in two weeks! I did have my coat on when I got on the scale (on purpose) but still, that is pretty impressive if I can say that about myself. Last appointment my belly was measuring 28 weeks (at the 31 week appointment, so about 3 weeks behind) and this time at the 33 week appointment, I was measuring 34 weeks. So it looks like baby girl skipped ahead 6 weeks in two! She decided to have a major growth spurt in there! The doctor did say that although 23 total is not bad, I'm still a little behind so keep it up. I'll see her again on the 17th, and then again on the 27th for the GBS test. Then after that starts the icky internal appointments and once a week at that.

And they checked, and she is still a girl.

Caleb has an appointment with the opthamologist on Monday morning to get his goopy eye checked out. It has been bad for about a month now, and I really don't think it's related to sinus drainage. the last two nights he has woken up with it completely slimed shut, and today he woke from his nap that way too. I hope they can figure out what's wrong with it, and fix for good. He should have outgrown that basic clogged duct by now. It has gotten so bad that people keep asking me if he has pink eye. It's swollen a little, and irritated all around, and then there's all that nasty yellow goop. Poor baby!

Do this

32 week Belly Shot and bedding set

Here is what I look like now. It looks the same as the one I took a month ago! It's T-2 days until I get my butt kicked by the doctor. In that time I'm going to drink a whole quart of chocolate soymilk and hope for the best. I also brought home some leftover Paula Deen cookies from Aunt Shelley. They are chocolate cookies covered with powdered sugar. mmmmmmmmmmm........




In other news, I finished the bedding set I started BEFORE we got pregnant with Baby Girl. I originally made it to sell, but the quilt isn't saleable quality, so fortunately for me we are having a girl! After I've worked on it for so long, I don't think I could part with it anyway. I love the fabrics too much! I have lots of leftover fabric, so I'm going to see if I can make curtains, and a pillow and maybe a Boppy cover too. Any other ideas for things I can make? I'm especially proud of the crib skirt - I figured out box pleats all by myself! I did all of it without buying the pattern, just looking at the finished product and reading the measurements from the back of the pattern in the store. I think it turned out great considering.






In case you can't tell from the pictures, the colors are pink, light turquoise, dark pink and yellow. The turquoise is nearly impossible to match - I've already figured that much out. The lighter pink should be a pretty generic color to match, and we could definitely use some more pink crib sheets. ;)

All that BG's room needs now are name letters for the wall.... if only she had a name. sigh.